Third issue of the Bulletin of Land Surface Dynamics (second half of 2014) is now available online.

LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels publishes a yearly Bulletin of Land Surface Dynamics.

2014 has been the hottest year on record in the World and in Europe. Impacts of this exceptional phenomenon on the land surface dynamics are similar to the ones observed earlier in 2014, including:

• An unusual absence of snow in December over Central Europe
• The Sweden's largest wildfire in 60 years
• A greener vegetation than usual in Mediterranean countries

All this information can be visualized from the web portal where a point based extraction tool is also provided (www.uclouvain.be/lifewatch).

All data are available at least from 2001 to present and are regularly updated.

LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels is one of the Belgian contributions to LifeWatch. It is funded by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.